Best reasonably priced hand held mixer

[JohnStuartMills]

Can anybody vouch for a really good hand held mixer. I have looked at some in the Argos catalogue. Some have dough hooks as well as beaters/whisk. One has a milk frother as well as beaters/whisk.

I want to use the mixer to make cakes/buns and other baked goods. Is the whisk thingies or the dough hook used for mixing cake batter. Or is the one with the milk frother more useful. What would you do with the frothy milk?

Please, please advise me as I don't want to waste money on something that is not the most useful choice. Want to make lovely airy cakes and fluffy toppings.

Just wondering if people who make a lot of cakes/buns use the electric whisk or the dough hooks?

I have a Kenwood Chefette type thing (old thing, given to me by MIL) - hand held, with only one type of beaters (not whisk) and use it for cakes/meringues/cookies (when I can be bothered - sometimes I just beat mixture half-heartedly with wooden spoon and they always seemed to work anyway). My blender has a whisk but I've never used it. I make bread by hand. I can't imagine when I would ever need a milk frother!

So I'd say beaters (don't know how to describe these - looks like those hand-held mechanical mixer rather than whisk) useful, whisk/frother/dough hooks useless. But that may be just me.

I use cheapo electic hand beaters , have a kenwood but can never be bothered to get it out of cupboard. Recently i needed new beater so i bougt more expensive (£35) one and was very disapointed as it broke , i think it was Morphy richards. It was silver and needless to say i hadnt kept the paperwork. Before that i had a philips habd held whisk that lasted for years, and have only ever used the whisks

Tesco

I have this one - bought with Tesco points, I should add. It is really good, especially for creaming butter and sugar. I have remade Nigella recipes that previously I couldn't get just right, and the added air it gets into the mix seems to make all the difference.

I had a Braun for years - recently replaced it with a philips. Neither were particularly expensive.
I use the whisk for cakes, I use the blender a lot for soups and I also use the other bit for finely chopping things like onions, herbs etc for curry pastes or making breadcrumbs.
Dough hook and milk frother would be pointless for me. We do have a breadmaker which is dusted off once every couple of years before being put away again.

Having looked at owls link if you really only want it for baking that is probably better than the blender/whisk type thing that I was talking about.

I bought one the other day. It was a Breville £25. I looked at the Kenwoods but wasnt happy with the whisks - thought they were too thin and construction rubbish.

You do get what you pay for, however this is a temporary buy until hubby buys me the mutts nutts Kenwood professional! I use this hand one regulary and great for cakes.

I cant imagine using dough hooks when hand held - whats the point?